Chapter III: Introduction: i‒vi

I.—MYTHS CONNECTED WITH THE LEGENDARY HISTORY
OF THE ISLE OF MAN:

Manannan Mac Lir—Lug—The Story of the Isle of
Falga—Culann—Finn—Oshin—The Stories of Sigurd
Fafni’s Bane, and of the Punishment of Loki 1‒18

II.—HAGIOLOGICAL AND MYTHO-HISTORICAL LEGENDS:

Introductory—_Stories_: The Conversion of the Manx; the
Conversion of St. Maughold; St. Maughold’s Fish;
St. Maughold and Gilcolum; A Legend of Myrescogh
Lake; The Stone Cross of Ballafletcher; Goddard
Crovan’s Stone; Olave Goddardson and the Sword
Macabuin; Alswith the Swift; Ivar and Matilda 19‒32

III.—FAIRIES AND FAMILIAR SPIRITS:

Introductory—_Stories_: Origin of the Arms of the Island;
The Discovery of the Island; The Fairy Horn; The
Fairy Saddle; The Fairy Horse Dealer; Fairy Music;
The Fairy Lake; The Unfortunate Fiddler; Objection
of Fairies to Noise; The Fairy Cup of Kirk Malew;
Fairy Elf; The Kidnappers; A Fairy detected in
Changing an Infant; Abduction of a Boy by Fairies;
The Christening; The School Boys; Fairy Punishment;
The Whipping of the Little Girl; Mischief done by
Fairies; Fairy Dogs; The Cup of the Lhiannan-Shee;
The Fairy Sweetheart; The Dooiney-oie 33‒51

IV.—HOBGOBLINS, MONSTERS, GIANTS, MERMAIDS, APPARITIONS,
&C.

Introductory—_Stories_: The Phynnodderee; The Glashtin
or Glashan; The Water-Bull, or Tarroo-Ushtey; The
Buggane; The Black Dog, or Moddey Doo; The Spellbound
Giant; The Old Man; The Three-headed Giant;
Jack the Giant Killer; The Captured Mermaid;
The Mermaid’s Courtship; The Mermaid’s Revenge;
Dwellings under the Sea; The Apparition of Castle
Rushen; Ben Veg Carraghan; A Legend of the Sound;
The Chasms; The Spirit “Hoa Hoa.” 52‒75

V.—MAGIC, WITCHCRAFT, &C.

Introductory—Cases of Witchcraft from Insular Records—_Stories_:
The Magician’s Palace; Origin of King
William’s Sands; The Devil’s Den; The Submerged
Island; Tehi-Tegi, the Enchantress; Caillagh-ny-Ghueshag;
The Glencrutchery Well; The Effigy; The
Witch of Slieu-Whallian; The Burnt Besom; Butter
Bewitched; The Manx Witch; Popular Antidotes to
Witchcraft; The Evil Eye; Dust as an Antidote;
Charmers and their Charms 76‒101

VI.—CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS CONNECTED WITH THE
SEASONS:

Introductory—New Year’s Day; Twelfth day; St. Paul’s
Feast day; Bridget’s Feast day; Candlemas Day;
Shrove-Tuesday; Periwinkle Fair; Weather Sayings
for March and April; Patrick’s Feast day; Good
Friday; Easter Sunday; St. Mark’s and Maughold’s
Feast day; May-Day Eve; May-Day; Spitlin’s
Summer Feast day; Perambulation of Parish Boundaries;
Midsummer-eve; Midsummer day; Luanys’s
Day; Harvest Festival; Maughold’s Feast day;
Hallowe’en; The Twelfth of November; Spitlin’s
Winter Feast day; Catherine’s Feast day; Thomas’s
Feast day; Christmas Eve; Christmas Day; The White
Boys; Stephen’s Feast day (“Hunt the Wren”); John’s
Christmas Feast day; Feast day of the Children; New
Year’s Eve 102‒140

VII.—SUPERSTITIONS CONNECTED WITH THE SUN, ANIMALS,
TREES, PLANTS, SACRED EDIFICES, &C.

Nature Worship; The Sun; The Moon and the Stars;
Animal Worship; Totemism; Sacrifices; Blood; Nail
and Hair Cuttings; Criminals hung by Hair Ropes;
Tree Worship; Adoration of Re-productive Power of
Nature; May-Day, Midsummer, and Harvest Celebrations;
The Hare, Herring, Cow, Cock, _Bollan_;
Animals’ Weather Wisdom—_Stories_: The _Ushag-reaisht_;
The _Lhondoo_; The Blackbird and the
Thrush; How the Herring became King of the Sea;
The Seven Sleepers; The Thorn, Elder, Shamrock, &c.;
Virtues of Iron and Salt; The Sin of Sacrilege and its
Punishment; Piety of the Manx, &c. 141‒155

VIII.—CUSTOMS AND SUPERSTITIONS CONNECTED WITH BIRTH,
MARRIAGE, AND DEATH:

_Birth._—Precautions taken to Preserve Women after
Child-birth and Children before Baptism from Evil
Influences and Fairies; Powers of a Posthumous
Child, &c.; Virtues of Salt, and of a Caul.

_Marriage._—Waldron’s Description of a Manx Wedding;
Blowing of Horns; The _Dooinney-Moyllee_;
Train’s and Harrison’s Descriptions of a Manx
Wedding.

_Death._—Omens which preceded it; Preparations for
Burial; Bishop Merick’s Mistake about the Winding-sheet;
Waldron’s Description of Death and Funerals;
Road Crosses; a Funeral Entertainment; Further
Death Signs; Modern Custom after a Funeral; Second
Sight; A Supernatural Warning; Mock Funerals 156‒164

IX.—CUSTOMS FORMERLY ENFORCED BY LAW.

Introductory—Watch and Ward; Customs connected with
Land Tenure; Jury for Servants; Custom about Servants
Giving Notice; Yarding; The Deemster’s Oath; Legal
Purgation; The Stocks; The Pillory; The Wooden
Horse; Bishop Wilson on Peculiar Laws and Customs;
Other Curious Laws; Manx Ecclesiastical Law;
Excommunication; Penance; The Nuns’ Chairs; The
Bridle; The Punishment of being Dragged after a Boat;
Bowing to the Altar; Observation of Sunday; The
Three Reliques; Games, &c. 165‒180

X.—PROVERBS AND SAYINGS:

Introductory—(1) Proverbs relating to General Truths;
(2) Proverbs inculcating Caution, Contentment, Thrift,
Independence, Industry, and Charity; (3) Proverbial
Weather-Lore; (4) Miscellaneous Sayings and Proverbs 181‒192